Tag: Jaws
Motivation and Stakes in Jaws, Death Spa, and Blue Monkey
If after the first kill in Jaws, the mayor agreed that there was clearly a shark problem and acted fast to get rid of...
The Mystical Revenge of the Mighty ORCA (1977)
Humans have the capacity for great evil. Oftentimes the public is complicit in this cruelty without their knowledge. One of the cruelest things we...
Finding the Killer Shark Slasher Movie in JAWS 2 (1978)
I avoided the Jaws sequels for many years before I finally succumbed to the inevitable franchise marathon that lies in wait for all horror...
Reasoning with the Unreasonable in No Country for Old Men
Horror, deep in its dark heart, is about forcing characters to confront the unimaginable: the killer with a knife, the book that raises the...
The Mouth of Hell in Jaws (1975)
Like most kids born in the early to mid-80s, I grew up knowing the name Steven Spielberg. My cousins and I wore out my...
Jaws and the Rare Case Where the Film is Better
The common thinking is that the book is always better than its film adaptation. That’s just…not so. It’s easy to understand why we often...